The poets of the Silver Age were not very fond of having children: high poetry and dirty diapers did not go well together. And yet, some artists left offspring of the word. And, it turns out, their children had to grow up in difficult times. So the fates of many were not easy.
Sons of Boris Pasternak
Boris Pasternak married the artist Evgenia Lurie. In 1923 the poet's first child was born. The son was named after his mother - Eugene, but his face was - the spitting image of his father. When Eugene was eight years old, his parents divorced. For the boy, parting with his father was a huge grief.In 1941, Eugene had just finished school; together with his mother, he left for evacuation to Tashkent, where he entered the institute at the Institute of Physics and Mathematics, but, of course, studied only the course - upon reaching the age of majority he was mobilized.
After the war, Evgeny graduated from the Academy of Armored and Mechanized Forces with a degree in mechanical engineering and continued to serve in the army until 1954. Then he got a job as a teacher at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute and worked there until 1975; In parallel, he defended his dissertation, becoming a candidate of technical sciences.
After his father's death in 1960, Eugene devoted his life to studying and preserving his creative heritage. Since 1976 he worked as a researcher at the Institute of World Literature. During his life, he published two hundred publications about his father and died in our time, in 2012.
Leonid - in honor of his father Boris Leonidovich - was born in the second marriage of the poet, with pianist Zinaida Neugauz, in 1938. Like his brother, he turned out to be talented in the exact sciences, became a physicist, participated in Sevastyanov's research and was a co-author of many of his works. Leonid Pasternak is remembered as an erudite, pleasant-mannered, gentle person who could recite a huge number of poems by heart and did it very artistically. Alas, Leonid Borisovich died, a little did not live up to forty years.
Children of Igor Severyanin
The eldest daughter of the poet, Tamara, was conceived in her first marriage, unofficial. Tamara's mother's name was Evgenia Gutsan, she conquered Igor with an unusual golden tint of hair, but they lived under the same roof for only three weeks.After parting with Severyanin, Evgenia married a Russian German. Because of the First World War, the family, fearing persecution, moved to Berlin. There Tamara was sent to a ballet school.
For the first time, the poet saw his daughter after the revolution, when he moved to Germany. Tamara was already sixteen, and she turned out to be very similar to her mother. But the poet's jealous wife forbade him to communicate with Evgenia and Tamara, so there was no special relationship between them.
Tamara became a professional dancer, survived two world wars, and during perestroika came to the USSR to pass on materials relating to the life and work of her father.
In the second civil marriage, the poet also had a daughter named Valeria - four years before the revolution. They named the baby in honor of Igor's friend, the poet Valery Bryusov. When the girl was five years old, her father took her and then his ex-wife, her mother, together with his new wife to Estonia. There he rented half the house for everyone.
In Estonia, Severyanin married for the fourth time, now officially, and left for Berlin. He did not take Valeria to Germany. She grew up in Estonia, worked all her life in the fishing industry and died in 1976.
In 1918, during a fleeting romance with her sister Yevgenia Gutsan, Elizaveta, a son was conceived. Both the boy and his mother soon died of starvation in Petrograd.
She gave birth to a son and an Estonian wife, Felissa. The boy was born in 1922 and he was named Bacchus - exactly like the ancient god of wine drinking. In 1944, Bacchus managed to move to Sweden, where he died in 1991. For most of his life he did not speak Russian and completely forgot his father's native language.
Son of Anna Akhmatova and Nikolai Gumilyov
It would seem that the child of two poets is also destined to become a poet. But Akhmatova's son Lev, born in 1912, is known primarily as a philosopher and orientalist - although he also wrote poetry.All childhood, Leo was looked after by his paternal grandmother - his parents were too busy with a stormy creative and personal life. After the revolution, they divorced, the grandmother left the estate and went to Bezhetsk. There, together with her relatives, she rented the floor of a private house, but every year the Gumilyovs were more and more compacted.
From six to seventeen years old, Lev saw his father and mother, separately, only twice. At school, he did not develop relationships with fellow students and teachers because of his noble origin. He even changed schools; fortunately, his literary talent was appreciated in the new one.
Akhmatova really did not like her son's youthful poems, she considered them an imitation of her father. Under the influence of his mother, Leo stopped composing for several years. After school, he tried to enter an institute in Leningrad, but his documents were not even accepted. But they managed to enroll in the courses of collectors of geological expeditions in Bezhetsk - geologists were constantly short of workers. Since then, Lev has constantly traveled in the summer on geological and archaeological expeditions.
However, his later life was difficult. He served time in the camp for anti-Soviet sentiments; I went hungry a lot. During the war he served at the front. Only in 1956 he was able to return to science. Lev Nikolayevich died in 1992, having lived a long and, despite the difficulties, a very fruitful life.
Son of Eduard Bagritsky
The poet Bagritsky was married to one of the Suok sisters. In 1922 their son Vsevolod was born. When Seva was fifteen, his mother was sentenced to camps for trying to stand up for her sister's arrested husband. Even earlier, he lost his father, who was seriously ill with asthma.In his youth, Vsevolod studied at a theater studio and wrote for Literaturnaya Gazeta. A scandalous story dates back to the same time: he published a little-known poem by Mandelstam, passing it off as his own. Vsevolod was immediately exposed by Chukovsky and his mother.
During the war, they refused to call on Bagritsky - he was very short-sighted. Only in 1942 did Vsevolod succeed in being sent to the front, though as a war correspondent. A month later, he died during a mission.
Children of Balmont
Konstantin Balmont was one of those poets who bred willingly. The first wife, Larisa Galerina, gave birth to his son Nikolai in 1890. At the age of six, he survived the divorce of his parents and then spent almost the rest of his life with his mother in St. Petersburg. Moreover, his mother did not devote her life to her son at all, she got married - the journalist and writer Nikolai Engelhardt became Kolya Balmont's stepfather. Nikolay Gumilyov married the younger sister of Nikolai Balmont after a divorce from Akhmatova. Kolya had an excellent relationship with his stepfather.
After the gymnasium, Balmont Jr. entered the Chinese department of the Faculty of Oriental Languages of St. Petersburg University, but a year later he transferred to the department of Russian literature. But Nikolai could not finish his studies.
As a young man, he began to write poetry, was a member of a student poetic circle. Kolya was fascinated by his father as a poet, and when in 1915 Konstantin returned from Paris to St. Petersburg, he moved to live with him for a while. But the poet did not like his son very much. Literally everything caused disgust, but most of all, probably, the fact that the son was mentally ill - he suffered from schizophrenia.
At the end of 1917, the Balmonts moved to Moscow. Three years later, Konstantin left for Paris with his next wife and little daughter Mirra. Nicholas stayed. For some time, Konstantin's ex-wife, Catherine, helped him, but in 1924 the young poet died in the hospital from pulmonary tuberculosis.
From Ekaterina Andreeva, a translator by profession, by the way, Balmont Sr. had a daughter, Nina. She was born in 1901. When Nina was a baby, the poet dedicated a collection of poems "Fairy Tales" to her. Even after the parents divorced, Konstantin's connection with his daughter remained very strong and warm, they corresponded until 1932.
Nina met her future husband, artist Lev Bruni, at the age of eleven. Leo was seven years older, so at first there was no talk of any love: they chatted when he stayed for dinner, sometimes they played in the country. But four years later everything changed, Nina began to noticeably grow up, and Leo realized that he wanted to marry her. Immediately after graduating from Nina's gymnasium, the young people got married.
Regarding her husband, Konstantin admonished Nina in a letter: “You should not give your inner sacred independence to anyone, in any case.” The marriage turned out to be happy. Bruni admired his wife all his life, left many portraits of her. Alas, early marriage, the children did not allow Nina to develop any of her talents, which seemed so promising to her father.
When she got married, Nina did not know how to do anything around the house at all. The next morning after the wedding, Lev asked if she would cook breakfast. Nina happily agreed and asked what he would like. Having learned that it was scrambled eggs, she took out the eggs and began to dig a hole in the shell. Leo had to take matters into his own hands and for a long time it was he who cooked in the family. Then it became impossible - he left for a long time to work. And Nina, in the midst of the horrors of the civil war and starvation, had to learn - not only to heat the stove, but to do literally everything around the house, including caring for cattle. “I am stunned, I reach hysterics,” this is how the young woman defined her condition.
Nina gave birth and raised several children and, having been widowed early, never married again. She became a researcher of her father's work, lived long and even happily, in her opinion, and died in 1989. Nina Bruni-Balmont became the prototype of the main character of the book "Medea and her children" by the writer Ulitskaya.
The third wife of Konstantin Balmont was Elena Tsvetkovskaya, a student at the Faculty of Mathematics at the Sorbonne. She gave birth in 1907 to a daughter, Mirra, in honor of the poetess Maria Lokhvitskaya, who wrote under the name of Mirra and became famous. At the age of eight, Mirra moved with her parents to Russia, but not for long. After the revolution, she left with her parents for France. Under the pseudonym "Aglaya Gamayun" she wrote poetry in her youth, got married twice. At the age of sixty-two, she was in a car accident, as a result she was paralyzed and died a year later from insufficient care.
Two more children, George and Svetlana, were born to Balmont by Princess Dagmar Shakhovskaya. Almost nothing is known about them.
But it seems that mothers have always played more role in the lives of famous than children. For example, they can be considered brilliant for one result of their labors.
Strange: August is the most blessed month in Russia in terms of weather and abundance, but Russian poets did not like it, as if they anticipated the catastrophes that would haunt post-Soviet Russia this month. "Ah, if only it weren't for August, this damned time!" - wrote Alexander Galich. Pasternak in the poem "August" appointed his funeral for this month, which the lyrical hero of the poem sees in a dream. And in some way I guessed again: for this August, Yevgeny Pasternak.
Immediately after the funeral, I did not dare to write about: it seemed that there were many more worthy authors. But most of the obituaries were routine replies: born, served, fired for seeing off the Solzhenitsyn family ... And this is about a man about whom he said at the apartment readings of his novel Doctor Zhivago: "I could say that I am writing this novel about my eldest son ".
Yevgeny Pasternak lived a long and, without exaggeration, great life - 88 years, from 1923 to 2012. Of these eighty-eight years, his father was alive for 37 - for Yevgeny Borisovich he was not only a great poet, but also "the kindest and most understanding person on earth."
How many misfortunes and hardships have happened over these years - the end of the NEP and the struggle against the "former", repressions, war and post-war stagnation. None of these marks of the century passed Yevgeny Pasternak.
The blast wave during the demolition of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in his children's room on Volkhonka broke the windows. For fear of reprisals, the former lady-in-waiting Elizaveta Stetsenko, who raised him, did not greet people who recognized her from pre-revolutionary life. Evgeny Borisovich participated in the Great Patriotic War, was awarded the medals "For the Victory over Germany" and "For Military Merit".
The farewell to Sheremetyevo of the Solzhenitsyn family, who were leaving the USSR to reunite with him, turned out to be his dismissal from MPEI. Support for the Solzhenitsyn family is all the more valuable because there was no corporate solidarity in it - Pasternak the son did not belong to the writer's workshop: after the war, Evgeny Borisovich graduated from the Academy of Armored and Mechanized Forces with a degree in mechanical engineering in electrical equipment and automatic control systems, and then for a long time connected his life with the Moscow Power Engineering Institute.
And against the backdrop of all these tragedies, Yevgeny Pasternak called the divorce of his father and mother, which he experienced very hard at the age of eight, "the biggest misfortune of his life."
After all, we live in a dry time: it would be nice if Evgeny Borisovich was a silent man or an empty flower in literary and biographical terms. Then the "unnoticed" of his death could be understood.
But everything was just the opposite: just as Vera Nabokova, according to experts, could have won some international championship of writers' wives, so Yevgeny Pasternak would certainly have won first place in the world competition of writers' sons.
And the point here is not only the household help that Yevgeny provided to his father from an early age (it all started in infancy with the somewhat controversial main postulate of Pasternak Sr.'s educational system: "I teach my son not to interfere with adults").
He is also the author of the first complete biography of his father in Russia (modestly titled: "Boris Pasternak. Biography"). God alone knows what this seven hundred-page biography cost the seventy-year-old Yevgeny Borisovich: after all, he also had to write about the details of his father's divorce - that is, about the main misfortune of his own life.
And yet - memories, in the center of which is always the father. And yet - articles about the mother, the artist Evgenia Lurie, whose fate was broken by the neighborhood with a genius; about "ideal socialism" in the work of his father, about the case with the Nobel Prize.
In general, about everything that was paid for not with money and archival dust, but with blood and nerves. And all this - in the nineties and zero years, when the author, born in 1923, crossed the seventy and eighty years of age.
Work and patience ... The son studied with his father, and Pasternak the father had no patience. Here is how Yevgeny Borisovich writes in his memoirs about the work of his “daddy” in the fifties (so, and he also calls him Borey and Borechka only in his memoirs; scientific politeness is observed in articles and biography): “If earlier the translation of one tragedy by Shakespeare paid for a whole year, but now it was only enough for half a year. The fact is that the rates for translation work have been reduced by law. "
Can you imagine what it is not only to translate - to read and correctly understand Shakespeare's tragedy, taking into account the archaism of the language and the meanings inherent in it? And what does it mean to translate it into verse - and even at the Pasternak level - and all this in six months? Father could.
And after that he received "gratitude" from the first secretary of the Komsomol Central Committee, who spoke at the Komsomol plenum in the presence of Khrushchev: "He shat where he ate." All this at the age of sixty-eight.
The son, who undertook the main works of his life at the age of seventy, was probably guided by his father's example.
If you come across Yevgeny Pasternak's book "Understood and Found" - do not be lazy, read the chapter "From family memories". A completely different Boris Pasternak will appear before you - in some ways similar to Hamlet in his own, Pasternak's interpretation. A young man who has no doubts, a man who is not confused in love, sobbing from the impossibility of preserving the love of his first wife along with family happiness with his second.
By the fifties, it's all in the past. Before us is a strong man, demanding from his son to supply him with weapons to protect him from bandits in Peredelkino, angrily throwing "Vasily Terkin" who laughed at his praises: "I have come to you not to joke!"
Yevgeny Pasternak left - and around it became somehow even more empty. No wonder in his autobiography he writes how shocking for him, as a child, was the discovery of a pile of broken bricks on the site of the golden-domed Cathedral of Christ the Savior, previously visible at the train approach to Moscow. "And who are we and where are we from - when from all those years / / Gossip remained, but we are not in the world?". That's what his father wrote...
The eldest son of writer Boris Pasternak, literary critic Yevgeny Pasternak, died on Tuesday in Moscow at the age of 89, RIA Novosti reports, citing his niece Elena Pasternak.
"He died today at seven in the morning in his Moscow apartment," Pasternak said.
According to her, it was "a very old man who had a great life and a dignified death."
“I can’t say that he had some kind of on-duty diagnosis that killed him - just due to the combination of various age-related diseases, his heart stopped, nothing unexpected happened, unfortunately,” said the niece of the literary critic.
Relatives of Yevgeny Pasternak want to bury him next to his father in a cemetery in the village of Peredelkino. “I am now making sure that we bury him in Peredelkino on our site next to his father. It was his will, and we are not considering any other options,” said Elena Pasternak.
Boris Pasternak lived in the village of Peredelkino from 1936 until the end of his life. On June 2, 1960, the poet was buried at the Peredelkino cemetery. Since 1990, a house-museum named after him has been opened in the two-story house of Pasternak.
The interlocutor of the agency suggested that the funeral would take place on Thursday or Friday.
"Of course, there will be a farewell and a funeral service - it's just that now we with his children, my brothers, need some time to settle all the issues with the papers," she concluded.
Evgeny Pasternak is the eldest son of Boris Pasternak from his first marriage to the artist Evgenia Lurie. Literary historian, textual critic Yevgeny Pasternak was an outstanding specialist in the work of his father. He wrote the first domestic biography of Boris Pasternak and acted as the compiler and author of comments on the complete 11-volume collected works of the poet. He was awarded medals "For the Victory over Germany", "For Military Merit". In 1989, in Stockholm, he received a diploma and a Nobel laureate medal for his father.
Evgeny Pasternak, biography:
Literary critic, military engineer Yevgeny Borisovich Pasternak was born on September 23, 1923 in Moscow. He was the eldest son of the writer Boris Pasternak from his first marriage to the artist Evgenia Lurie.
After graduating from school in 1941, he entered the Central Asian State University in Tashkent at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, where he studied one course.
From 1942 to 1954 he served in the Armed Forces, a participant in the Great Patriotic War.
In 1946, Yevgeny Pasternak graduated from the Military Academy of Armored and Mechanized Troops named after I.V. Stalin (now the Combined Arms Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation) with a degree in mechanical engineering for electrical equipment and automatic control systems. In 1969 he defended his thesis, candidate of technical sciences.
From 1954 to 1974 he was a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Automation and Telemechanics of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute (MPEI).
After Yevgeny Pasternak saw off the relatives of Alexander Solzhenitsyn at Sheremetyevo Airport, with whom they were family friends, he was offered at the institute not to apply for the next competition for re-election as an associate professor. After that, he was forced to leave MPEI.
After the death of his father in 1960, Yevgeny Pasternak devoted himself entirely to the creative heritage of his father and, together with his wife, philologist Elena Pasternak, began to collect materials for his biography.
Since 1976 - researcher at the Institute of World Literature of the USSR Academy of Sciences (RAS).
Yevgeny and Elena Pasternak prepared for publication several publications about the life and work of Boris Pasternak, his correspondence, and memoirs about his father. They were the compilers of the first Complete Works of Boris Pasternak, prepared by the Slovo / Slovo publishing house. It consists of 11 volumes and a multimedia application on CD. The multimedia disc includes biographical information, a photo album, translations of dramatic works that were not included in the main collection, as well as phonograms (poems in the author's performance and music that Pasternak wrote in his early youth).
In total, the archive of Yevgeny Pasternak contains about 200 printed works dedicated to the life and work of Boris Pasternak, his relationship with famous contemporaries.
He was a regular participant and speaker at scientific conferences dedicated to the creative heritage of Pasternak, and lectured at a number of leading universities in the world.
On December 9, 1989, in Stockholm, Yevgeny Pasternak was awarded the diploma and medal of the Nobel laureate of his father, which he could not receive.
He was awarded medals "For the Victory over Germany", "For Military Merit".
On July 31, 2012, Yevgeny Pasternak died in his Moscow apartment from cardiac arrest.
Yevgeny Pasternak was married to Elena Walter (married Pasternak), the granddaughter of the philosopher Gustav Shpet. Elena Pasternak was her husband's co-author, his editor. Yevgeny and Elena Pasternak have three children.
I heard it from a friend on the Odnoklassniki network from America. In Russia, this sad event was actually ignored. The face is not media. Only "Ekho Moskvy" and several printed publications gave meager information.
... I was afraid of his death 11 years ago. We lived in the same house for several months. Our and his windows faced the courtyard - from two sides, and we could see each other. And I shuddered when on a normal day, washing my face or talking on the phone, I suddenly saw in the window the unique Pasternak profile.
At night I sometimes woke up and saw that the light was on at the Pasternaks. Yevgeny Borisovich in blue pajamas was standing by the window. I was worried - it seemed that he was looking for a cure, he felt bad. We were separated by a yard, it often rained, it was autumn. An old lantern swayed in the yard. And the famous "I silently recognized Russia's unique features..."
For some reason these lines.
We talked with Evgeny Borisovich only once, but I saw him several times a year at evenings in the Tsvetaevsky Museum. He led all the Pasternak evenings, for many years, on February 11th. Here, in the Tsvetaeva Museum, they pass on the 11th, because on the 10th it is always evening in the Peredelkino house.
The first time I think I went to such an evening was in February 1996. I am writing now from memory, then I will check in my diaries. There were bitter frosts, but at the appointed time the hall of the Museum of Marina Tsvetaeva was full, overcrowded even. Nadezhda Ivanovna Kataeva-Lytkina, the head of the museum, beamed and thanked everyone who came ... And suddenly everyone froze. Pasternak appeared at the door. Breathless. They were remarkably similar.
There were also Pasternaks at our other evenings - in memory of Boris Zaitsev, the name day of Anastasia Ivanovna Tsvetaeva ... Yesterday I suddenly realized acutely that I had found that GENUINE intelligentsia, old Moscow, "a generation with lilacs and Easter in the Kremlin ..." Back then Dmitry Sergeevich Likhachev, Mikhail Leonovich Gasparov, Sergei Averintsev, Svyatoslav Richter, Olga Vedernikova, the widow of the legendary pianist were alive ...
And I saw them and many others, and it seemed that they would always be. And now, when there was almost no one left, I looked around and froze. "Generation, I am yours! Continuation of mirrors!" Isn't that why there is no understanding with the current generation (of different ages) for many of us?
Evgeny Borisovich and Elena Vladimirovna. They perform or sit next to us in the hall. Their granddaughter Asya is almost always with them, a beautiful girl, sophisticated and timeless. I saw their son Boris, their second son, Peter, and I did not see their daughter Lisa. I knew about my grandchildren. There are many, it seems, now nine. We were all there then. And Natalya Anisimovna Pasternak, the widow of Leonid, the youngest son of Boris Leonidovich, and her family.
And those who left. Boris Leonidovich. His first wife, Evgenia Vladimirovna, mother of Evgeny Borisovich, and Zinaida Nikolaevna Pasternak, and her children - Leonid and Adik. At the Peredelkino cemetery. We go there often.
Yevgeny Borisovich left at the end of July, almost on the days described in the legendary poem "August". "You walked in a crowd, apart and in pairs, Suddenly someone remembered that today is the sixth of August in the old way, the Transfiguration of the Lord ..." And - further: "Usually light without a flame Comes on this day from Tabor ..."
And they buried him in August. In the cemetery forest in Peredelkino.
He was at war. By education he is very far from literature, an engineer. But it was he who wrote the best biography of his father. Made a lot of comments. Published letters. Scientific articles, lectures, speeches at evening parties, compiling Pasternak's books... - he did all this for many years. Together with his wife Elena Vladimirovna, his modest companion.
"That's all, the eyes of a genius closed their eyes ..." - let's remember David Samoilov. The earth was orphaned and settled by other people. And ours will no longer be.
From the biography of Evgeny Borisovich Pasternak
Born September 23, 1923 in Moscow. He died on July 31, 2012 in Moscow. The eldest son of Boris Pasternak from his first marriage to the artist Evgenia Vladimirovna Lurie (1898-1965).
“When my parents broke up in 1931, for me it was the biggest grief in my life,” wrote Evgeny Borisovich.
After graduating from school in 1941 in Tashkent, where he was evacuated with his mother, he entered the Central Asian State University at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics. Completed one course. From 1942 to 1954 he served in the Armed Forces, was a participant in the Great Patriotic War. In 1946 he graduated from the Academy of Armored and Mechanized Troops with a degree in mechanical engineering for electrical equipment and automatic control systems. In 1969 he defended his dissertation and became a candidate of technical sciences. In 1954-1975 he taught at the Faculty of Automation and Telemechanics at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute. Yevgeny Pasternak was actually expelled from MPEI for seeing off Alexander Solzhenitsyn's family at Sheremetyevo Airport, with whom he was friendly.
Since 1960, after the death of his father, he has been a literary historian, textual critic, and specialist in the work of Boris Pasternak. Since 1976, he has been a researcher at the Institute of World Literature of the USSR Academy of Sciences (RAS). Author of the first national biography of Boris Pasternak, created on the basis of the richest and most exclusive archival material, primarily from the family archive. Compiler and commentator of the first complete 11-volume collected works of Pasternak, published in 5,000 copies by the Slovo publishing house (October 2005). Permanent participant and speaker of scientific conferences dedicated to the creative heritage of Pasternak. He has lectured at a number of European universities and leading US universities. He has about 200 printed works dedicated to the life and work of Pasternak, his relationship with famous contemporaries. Under his editorship, several more editions of the collected works of the poet were published, as well as correspondence, collections, memoirs and materials for the biography of B. L. Pasternak.
On December 9, 1989, in Stockholm, Yevgeny Pasternak was awarded a diploma and a medal of the Nobel laureate - his father.
He was awarded medals "For the Victory over Germany", "For Military Merit" and other state awards.
The most famous books of Yevgeny Pasternak
Boris Pasternak. Materials for the biography. M., "Soviet writer", 1989;
Boris Pasternak. Biography. M., "Citadel", 1997;
“The fabric of existence is transparent…” Book of memoirs;
In 2009, the couple released the memoirs of Boris Pasternak's sister Josephine, which were first published in Russian.
Wife - Elena Vladimirovna Walter (b. 1936) - granddaughter of the philosopher G. G. Shpet, philologist, co-author and collaborator of E. B. Pasternak in his scientific and publishing activities.
Children - Peter (b. 1957), theater artist, designer; Boris (b. 1961), architect; Elizabeth (b. 1967), philologist.
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Evgeny Borisovich Pasternak(September 23, Moscow - July 31, Moscow) - Russian literary critic, literary historian, military engineer, biographer, eldest son of writer Boris Pasternak from his first marriage to artist Evgenia Vladimirovna Lurie (-).
Biography
“When my parents separated in 1931, for me it was the biggest grief in my life.”
After graduating from school in 1941, together with his mother in evacuation in Tashkent, he entered the Central Asian State University at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, where he studied one course. With served in the Armed Forces, a participant in the Great Patriotic War. Graduated from the Academy of Armored and Mechanized Troops with a degree in mechanical engineering for electrical equipment and automatic control systems. In defended his thesis, candidate of technical sciences. From to Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Automation and Telemechanics. From MPEI, E. B. Pasternak, as he himself recalled, was actually kicked out for seeing off the family of Alexander Solzhenitsyn at Sheremetyevo Airport, who were serving to reunite with him.
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- This is disgusting! This is an abomination! she screamed. “It can't be what you ordered.
Berg and the countess looked at her in bewilderment and fear. The count stopped at the window, listening.
- Mom, this is impossible; look what's in the yard! she screamed. - They stay!
- What happened to you? Who are they? What do you want?
- The wounded, that's who! It's impossible, mother; it's not like anything ... No, mama, my dear, it's not that, please forgive me, my dear ... Mama, well, what do we need, what we will take away, you just look at what is in the yard ... Mama! .. This cannot be !..
The count stood at the window and, without turning his face, listened to Natasha's words. Suddenly he sniffled and put his face close to the window.
The countess looked at her daughter, saw her face, ashamed of her mother, saw her excitement, understood why her husband now did not look back at her, and looked around her with a bewildered look.
“Oh, do as you please! Am I bothering anyone! she said, not yet suddenly giving up.
- Mommy, my dear, forgive me!
But the countess pushed her daughter away and went up to the count.
- Mon cher, you dispose of it as it should ... I don’t know this, - she said, lowering her eyes guiltily.
“Eggs ... eggs teach a chicken ...” the count said through happy tears and hugged his wife, who was glad to hide her ashamed face on his chest.
- Daddy, mommy! Can you arrange? Is it possible? .. - Natasha asked. “We will still take everything we need,” Natasha said.
The count nodded his head in the affirmative, and Natasha, with the quick run with which she ran into the burners, ran down the hall into the hall and up the stairs to the courtyard.
People gathered near Natasha and until then they could not believe the strange order that she transmitted, until the count himself, in the name of his wife, confirmed the orders to give all the carts under the wounded, and carry the chests to the pantries. Having understood the order, people with joy and trouble set to a new business. Now it not only did not seem strange to the servants, but, on the contrary, it seemed that it could not be otherwise, just as a quarter of an hour before it not only did not seem strange to anyone that they were leaving the wounded and taking things, but it seemed which could not be otherwise.
All the households, as if paying for the fact that they had not taken up this earlier, set about with troublesome new business of accommodating the wounded. The wounded crawled out of their rooms and surrounded the wagons with joyful pale faces. A rumor also spread in the neighboring houses that there were carts, and the wounded from other houses began to come to the Rostovs' courtyard. Many of the wounded asked not to take things off and only to put them on top. But once the business of dumping things had begun, it could no longer stop. It was all the same to leave all or half. In the yard lay uncleaned chests with dishes, with bronze, with paintings, mirrors, which they had so carefully packed the previous night, and everyone was looking for and found an opportunity to put this and that and give away more and more carts.
“You can still take four,” said the manager, “I’m giving my wagon, otherwise where are they?
“Yes, give me my dressing room,” said the countess. Dunyasha will sit in the carriage with me.
They also gave a dressing wagon and sent it for the wounded through two houses. All the household and servants were merrily animated. Natasha was in an enthusiastically happy animation, which she had not experienced for a long time.
- Where can I tie it? - people said, fitting the chest to the narrow back of the carriage, - you must leave at least one cart.
- Yes, what is he with? Natasha asked.
- With count books.
- Leave it. Vasilyich will remove it. It's not needed.
The cart was full of people; doubted where Pyotr Ilyich would sit.
- He's on the goats. After all, you are on the goats, Petya? Natasha screamed.
Sonya busied herself without ceasing, too; but the aim of her troubles was the opposite of Natasha's. She put away those things that should have been left; wrote them down, at the request of the countess, and tried to take with her as much as possible.
At two o'clock, the four Rostovs' crews, laid down and laid down, stood at the entrance. Carts with the wounded, one after another, drove out of the yard.
The carriage in which Prince Andrei was being carried, passing by the porch, attracted the attention of Sonya, who, together with the girl, was arranging seats for the countess in her huge tall carriage, which was standing at the entrance.
